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Definition of 'mew'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mewe, from (etyl) 'to roar', Old Church Slavonic (myjati) 'to mew'.
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete) A gull, seagull.
* , II.xii:
- A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes , with Seagulles hoarse and bace [...].
Etymology 2
From (etyl) mue, (muwe), and (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
(obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
- Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew , / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
(falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.243:
- A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
(falconry|in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
Verb
( en-verb)
(obsolete) To shut away, confine, lock up.
* c. 1669 , John Donne, "Loves Warre":
- To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall / Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall [...].
* Shakespeare
- More pity that the eagle should be mewed .
* Dryden
- Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air.
(of a bird) To moult.
- The hawk mewed his feathers.
* Dryden
- Nine times the moon had mewed her horns.
Etymology 3
Onomatopoeic
Noun
( en-noun)
The crying sound of a cat; a meow.
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